Category: Science

For the past few decades, researchers have understood that quantum computers should eventually be able to crack the widely used codes that secure much of

Pacific pocket mice are geographically isolated, but the species may retain the genetic diversity needed to adapt to climate change.

Linguists can mix, match or even break the rules of real-world languages to create interesting imaginary ones.

Bears in Svalbard, Norway, are fatter than expected, and others in Greenland are showing signs of genetically adapting to climate change — but the signs

NPR’s Short Wave team talks about the surprising benefits of small talk, more humane ways to kill lobsters, and an ancient flood that may have

A study finds that less than half of surveyed parents know the legal age, 21, to buy cigarettes, vapes, nicotine pouches and other tobacco products.

Photographers caught a spectacular emerald-green fireball meteor streaking above Lindisfarne in northeast England, where Viking raiders famously killed and robbed Christian monks in the eighth

The strangler fig is a keystone species in the tropics, providing food and shelter, and a place to poop for 17 different mammal species.

A portion of the Moon’s far side is seen along the terminator—the boundary between lunar day and night—where low-angle sunlight casts long shadows across the

In a galaxy 500 million light-years away, two supermassive black holes could merge, spreading gravitational waves across the universe.

An ancient-DNA analysis of a rare Anglo-Saxon double burial revealed the people in the grave were brother and sister.

The Colorado River muscled its way through today’s Grand Canyon after pooling as a giant lake, according to new research.

Their sensitive facial hair may be the harbor seals superpower for tracking fish, scientists are learning. (Image credit: Robin Heinrich/Marine Science Center)

A neglected force produced by neutrinos and other particles helps atomic physics measurements align with predictions of the standard model.